Ever considered having a MetroLink Station between the Central West End and Grand Avenue stations?

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The Cortex-Ph.2 presentation to CMT linked on NextSTL’s website shows a proposed parking/BUS garage at Clayton/Boyle. Is this part of BJC’s overall plans to displace Metro from their current CWE-station set-up?

As far as I know, BJC has no plans to move or change the CWE station set-up. Boyle would be an entirely new station.

From what I’ve gathered, the parking garage is supposed to be a mix of employee parking and park & ride, emphasis on the former. BJC may use this parking garage to free up land closer to it core for development. Employee parking at the new Boyle garage would use some kind of transit—shuttle bus, MetroLink,monorail—to reach the core campus near Euclid.

Stlplanr

Wait, I thought an earlier blog post of yours covered BJC efforts to relocate the CWE station from Euclid to Kingshighway.

Sorry, I must have been unclear with the title of the post where by Central West End I meant the neighborhood and not the existing station. The proposed Boyle station will be a new stop and will not replace any others as long as it can attract a minimum threshold of new riders.

Stlplanr

Yes, I understand that Boyle would be an additional new station. However, I remain concerned that this is also an effort by BJC to relocate the bus center from Taylor to Boyle, as well as the CWE station from Euclid to Kingsghighway. I hope that is clear. In other words, the CWE station in platform and bus center, would no longer exist. But yes, there would be an additional stop along MetroLink at Boyle, in addition to the relocated stop closer to Kingsghighway.

My understanding of the CWE station location is that it is an internal fight between BJC which owns the land along Kingshighway and Washington University School of Medicine which owns the land along Euclid. BJC would like the station closer to them, WUSM is happy with where it is. In other words, it’s not moving anytime soon. I didn’t make the distinction between the two entities in my post as the great majority of people don’t know about it or care (myself included), but it’s an important distinction to make.

Stlplanr

I care because BJC employees take buses to work, not just MetroLink. Moving the bus transfer center from Taylor would inconvenience bus patrons riding to work. Moving the platform farther from Taylor would inconenience the many Metro system patrons who transfer at the CWE station. But St. Louisans largely don’t care, since they either don’t take any transit or think of transit as a single-seat experience on just MetroLink. Bus and system-transferring patrons should matter.